Cannot flash beagle bone black

[aa...@cnccraft.co.uk]

Hi

I have an old BBB that used to run a lasersaur, it still has the ubuntu /lasersaur software on it.  I want to flash it with the latest debian, I have tried o many times it i ridiculous.

I have used both dd  and  etcher to copy the image onto the disk, I have edited the text file on the boot directory.  What else can I try.

Please help

Thanks

[Robert Nelson]

Well, let's see your serial boot log to see what's really going on..

Regards,

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[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:43:17 -0800 (PST),
aa...@cnccraft.co.uk declaimed the following:

>I have an old BBB that used to run a lasersaur, it still has the ubuntu

>edited the text file on the boot directory. What else can I try.

If it is really old -- you may need to hold down the [boot select]
button to get it to boot from the SD card... You may also be encountering
an old u-Boot that expects the kernel to load the device tree while new
systems expect u-Boot to have loaded the device tree.


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